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Don James Larsen (August 7, 1929 – January 1, 2020) was an American professional baseball pitcher.During a 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he pitched from 1953 to 1967 for seven different teams: the St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles (1953–54; 1965), New York Yankees (1955–1959), Kansas City Athletics (1960–1961), Chicago White Sox (1961), San Francisco Giants (1962 ...
Drabowsky kept his spot in the Cubs' rotation in 1959 but saw little improvement from the year before. His best game of the year came on August 7, when he threw a five-hit shutout against the Pittsburgh Pirates. [13] Drabowsky finished the season 5–10 in 31 games (23 starts), but his ERA dropped to 4.13, and his innings pitched rose to 141 ...
On June 25, 1962, the Tigers traded Maxwell to the Chicago White Sox. Maxwell had a late season revival with the White Sox in 1962. By the third week of August, Maxwell was batting .352 for Chicago, and had a 13-game hitting streak, the team's longest that year. Maxwell wound up hitting .296 for the White Sox in 1962 with nine home runs.
Compared to the previous season, walks in the NL fell 13%, strikeouts increased 6%, the league batting average fell from .261 to .245, and runs scored declined 15%. [80] Koufax, who had reduced his walks allowed per nine innings to 3.4 in 1961 and 2.8 in 1962, reduced it further to 1.7 in 1963, which ranked fifth in the league. [38]
The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared at least in one game for the Houston Astros National League franchise (1965–2012) and current American League franchise (2013–present), also known previously as the Houston Colt .45's (1962–1964).
August 5 – Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-born basketball player; August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-born Hong Kong actress; August 7 – Bruno Pelletier, Canadian singer; August 8 – Yūji Machi, Japanese voice actor; August 10 – Suzanne Collins, American television writer and author ((The Hunger Games)) August 11 – Rob Minkoff, American ...
September 3 – The 1962 season's post-Labor Day stretch run will begin with the Los Angeles Dodgers (90–48) leading the San Francisco Giants (87–50) by 2½ games in the National League, and the New York Yankees (82–58) up by three games over the Minnesota Twins (79–61) in the American League, with the Los Angeles Angels (77–62) still ...
This is a list of footballers who have played for Sheffield Wednesday F.C. in competitive fixtures, up to and including games played by 26 December 2024. Number of appearances and goal statistics are for all competitions.